| 单词 | Dreiser |
| 例句 | He tried to warn Dreiser: “If you marry now—and a conventional and narrow woman at that, one older than you, you’re gone.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Theodore Dreiser reached Chicago about when Holmes did and was struck by this landscape of anticipation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Dreiser followed the ladies through the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building where, he said, a man “could trail round from place to place for a year and not get tired.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In the Midway Dreiser persuaded James J. Corbett to meet the women. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Dreiser showed a friend, John Maxwell of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, her photograph. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Dreiser joined the teachers on the Ferris Wheel and accompanied them on a visit to Buffalo Bill’s show, where Colonel Cody himself greeted the women and shook hands with each. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was good advice for a man like Dreiser. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Where Dreiser saw an enticing woman of mystery, Maxwell saw a schoolmarm of drab demeanor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The reporter—Theodore Dreiser—was young and suffused with a garish self-confidence that drew the attention of the young women. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In New York, he had joined several socialist groups, edited newspapers, recruited students, and befriended the novelist and social activist Theodore Dreiser. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They suggested that the worst thing that could possibly happen to an American was to topple from his perch on the class ladder, as happens to poor Hurstwood in Dreiser’s Sister Carrie. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Every chance he got, Dreiser tried to separate Sara White from the Republic's entourage, which Dreiser called the “Forty Odd,” but Sara had brought along her sister Rose, which complicated things. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Ultimately, though, it's a little schizo, like a depressed dude in a clown suit, or a Theodore Dreiser novel hopped up on not enough happy pills. "Conviction": Oscar bait, dosed with gloom 2010-10-14T18:15:00Z If you are Theodore Dreiser, no paragraph needs to shine at all. In Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather,’ Paranoia Is Delivered With Humor 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Dreiser said, “Words are but vague shadows of the volumes we mean.” Remembering Prince 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Except for his provincial avoidance of simple and perfectly understandable phrases, Mr. Dreiser writes very well. Review: ‘Sister Carrie,’ by Theodore Dreiser 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z A generation charmed by the lugubrious—once in O’Neill, Dreiser, and Anderson, now in Steinbeck and Van Wyck Brooks—is perhaps fleeing from the trivial shape of its own thoughts. Watch “Howards End”—Then Read It 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Reading Theodore Dreiser’s work has been likened to finding a very powerful Russian novel in a really bad translation. How the Bible Divided, and United, Allan Gurganus and His Father 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Theodore Dreiser is another example of a writer redeemed from stylistic bankruptcy by his enormous imaginative capital. Pankaj Mishra Says Faulkner’s Work Is ‘Atrociously Written,’ and Great 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Jerome Loving, who has written influential biographies of Walt Whitman and Theodore Dreiser, puts the focus of "Mark Twain: the Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens" exactly where it belongs. 'Mark Twain': the ebb and flow of the life of Huckleberry Finn's creator 2010-04-07T22:29:00Z Scott called it “long and dark: long like a novel by Dostoyevsky or Dreiser, dark like a painting by Rembrandt.” The 50 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z “The People v. O. J. Simpson” was a tightly packed, almost indecently entertaining piece of pop realism, a Dreiser novel infused with the spirit of Tom Wolfe. Review: ‘O.J.: Made in America,’ an Unflinching Take on His Rise and Fall 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Theodore Dreiser, considered one of America's great realist novelists for "Sister Carrie" and "An American Tragedy," lived his last years in Los Angeles and is buried at Forest Lawn in Glendale. To write and die in L.A. 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z He had good teachers in high school, and read everything he could get his hands on: the Beats, Theodore Dreiser, Nikki Giovanni, James Baldwin. S.A. Cosby, a Writer of Violent Noirs, Claims the Rural South as His Own 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Longing for adult fare and quick to note parallels with Theodore Dreiser’s “An American Tragedy,” critics in the United States were more enthusiastic than their British counterparts. ‘Room at the Top’: An Affair to Remember 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z “An American Tragedy” has the opposite problem: It reduces Dreiser’s sweeping social canvas to a miniature. ‘An American Tragedy’ and More at Glimmerglass 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z One of our great voices of the Midwest was the early-20th-century novelist Theodore Dreiser. The Ideal Reading Experience, The American Dollar and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z The movie is long and dark: long like a novel by Dostoyevsky or Dreiser, dark like a painting by Rembrandt. ‘The Irishman’ Review: The Mob’s Greatest Hits, in a Somber Key 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Back then Chicago had "developed an image as a cold, capitalistic city where people buy their way to power," a portrait helped along by Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" and Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle." A Rich tradition: Can Chicago shake political stereotype with new mayor? 2011-02-22T00:45:00Z The origins of their story lie in Theodore Dreiser’s “An American Tragedy,” which makes the unassailable point that people do bad things for money and status. Review | Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift’s bond is still fascinating after all these years 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z I was as thrilled by it as Mencken said he was upon first reading Dreiser’s colossal “Sister Carrie.” Times Critics Discuss 2021 in Books, From Breakout Stars to Cover Blobs 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Simpson is also the protagonist or antihero of an operatic tragedy too implausible for fiction; if Don DeLillo or Theodore Dreiser had invented his story it would seem laughable. O.J. Simpson, American icon: Why the football star turned accused killer is one of the 20th century’s most important cultural figures 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z “Dreiser, moving to Tenth Street, found himself in a dense mass of such Little Red Riding Hoods and their attendant wolves,” Mencken writes. Sunday Reading: Manhattan Stories 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z Another thing to say about “Last Stories” is that it’s a phantasmagoric book, blending bits of Lovecraft and Dreiser, David Foster Wallace and Scheherazade, Poe and the Brothers Grimm, to mostly muddled effect. William T. Vollmann’s ‘Last Stories and Other Stories’ 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z But if this is so, King is an occult Dreiser with his fly undone. Stephen King Visits an ‘Institute,’ Where the Kids Who Enter Can’t Escape 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z For all his apparent and avowed classicism of characterized drama, for all his devotion to the realism of Balzac and Dreiser, Bellow is a modernist despite himself. Catching Saul Bellow's Mind in Constant, Roiling Action 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Ma writes about the darker side of Chinese adoption, her social commentary less jaunty and sentimental than Dickens, more like Dreiser in its harsh realism. ‘The Year She Left Us,’ by Kathryn Ma 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Where is Dreiser, whose “An American Tragedy” he again and again, in other books, identifies as a major work? Harold Bloom Is Dead. But His ‘Rage for Reading’ Is Undiminished. 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z King is sometimes compared to Theodore Dreiser, another writer whose novels are automobiles with big roomy suspension systems and for whom literary “style” was an afterthought. Stephen King Visits an ‘Institute,’ Where the Kids Who Enter Can’t Escape 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z He often sketched and traveled with the writers Theodore Dreiser and Sherwood Anderson and the painter and ceramist Henry Varnum Poor, and their assorted wives and mistresses. Antiques: Furniture as Sculpture: A Craftsman?s Legacy 2010-09-02T20:39:00Z But the combination of his moral vision, psychological acuity, and insistent narrative force puts him, in my mind at least, in the company of Theodore Dreiser and Russell Banks. A Traitor to His Tribe 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z The novel of seduction — in the vein of “The Scarlet Letter” and “Tess of the D’Urbervilles,” of Dreiser, Zola and Henry James — was dead. ‘Temporary’ Is a Debut Novel That Leans Into the Absurdity of How We Work Now 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Theodore Dreiser’s “An American Tragedy” and, every bit as appropriate today as in my youth, Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” The Novel That Made Jules Feiffer Ignore His Family on Vacation 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Bellows found sublimity in urban excitements that Dreiser called "gross and cruel". George Bellows: Modern American Life – review 2013-03-17T00:05:47Z More sober transatlantic heralds, too, had announced that this the second attempt at adapting Dreiser's "An American Tragedy," was quite a film. Elizabeth Taylor: how Guardian critics rated her films 2011-03-24T08:30:00Z “The movie is long and dark: long like a novel by Dostoyevsky or Dreiser, dark like a painting by Rembrandt,” A.O. What's on TV Wednesday: ‘The Irishman’ and ‘Julie & Julia’ 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z But while Salinger’s outlook was locked in the cell of the precocious teenager, Bellow achieved a panoramic social vision that subtly reworked the passionate protest of his favorite Chicago novelist, Theodore Dreiser. ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964,’ by Zachary Leader 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z “The prose style is leaden, but so was Theodore Dreiser’s,” Carolyn See wrote in The Washington Post about the saga. John Jakes, best-selling author of historical novels, dies at 90 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Mark Twain, William Dean Howells and Theodore Dreiser, born in Missouri, Ohio and Indiana, respectively, were products of that culture, as was Willa Cather, who came of age in Nebraska. Opinion | In unsettled times, look to Midwestern values 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z His directness, along with his sense of characters’ subjectivity, felt new in the era following Henry James and Theodore Dreiser. Ken Burns' new Hemingway documentary doesn't give you a reason to read Hemingway 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z After its publication, the betting on who would become America’s first Nobel laureate in literature was split between him and Theodore Dreiser, who never won. Column: With 'Arrowsmith' (1925), a Nobel novelist foretold our mishandling of the coronavirus 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z Dreiser Hall’s classrooms will also be upgraded to include state-of-the-art technology to allow individuals statewide to earn a degree at a distance, the Tribune-Star reported. ISU’s Dreiser Hall to get $18M renovation thanks to funding 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z We associate writing about the underclass, about “real” people, with a straightforward, realistic style, plain sometimes to the point of awkwardness, as with Dreiser. Nelson Algren’s Street Cred 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z The murderer’s mind is magnetic; drawing in Dostoevsky and Dreiser, captivating Capote, mesmerizing Mailer. Opinion | We must stop giving mass killers what they want 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z In his own mind he was unknowable, unwritable, though for me he was like the digital embodiment of a character in Theodore Dreiser. Will social media kill the novel? Andrew O'Hagan on the end of private life 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z It is as much “An American Tragedy” as Theodore Dreiser’s classic novel. Opinion | Thank God for cultural appropriation 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z I would rather bring out a book that had an advance sale of five hundred thousand copies than have discovered Samuel Butler, Theodore Dreiser, and James Branch Cabell in one year. “I.O.U.” 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The sensational case inspired Theodore Dreiser’s novel "An American Tragedy." Kayaker indicted for murder after fiance's body turns up in Hudson River 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Hillary Rodham Clinton, the all-but-announced Democratic candidate, used a speech last week to recount a family history that could have come from the pages of a Theodore Dreiser novel. To Connect With Voters, Candidates Spin Tales of Working-Class Roots 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Heartbreaks in high school were softened by Jane Austen’s wit and by the greater tragedies in Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth and Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie. Save Little Free Libraries from Uncultured Killjoys 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z He took her to Vienna in 1928 and showcased her in Luigi Pirandello’s “Six Characters in Search of an Author” and a production of Theodore Dreiser’s “An American Tragedy.” Luise Rainer, back-to-back Academy Award winner, dies 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Yes, it’s a dictatorship, Dreiser notes, but one aiming to bring “that classless brother-loving society in which no dictatorship will be needed.” Book collects best of Jazz Age mag Vanity Fair 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Robert W. Chambers uses an adding machine and Theodore Dreiser favors an ax. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z The Eliot Spitzer story plays like a novel that might have been plotted by Theodore Dreiser and peopled with characters by Tom Wolfe. Books of The Times: ?Rough Justice? by Peter Elkind, on Eliot Spitzer 2010-04-15T21:46:00Z “Not since Dreiser has an American writer had so much to tell us about the role of money in our lives.” 2010-01-28T04:18:00Z The time of the Hawthornes has gone, and the time of the Dreisers is not yet. A Novelist on Novels Dreiser assured the reader that the Soviet peasant class is “neither downtrodden nor exploited,” and that their leaders live modestly. Book collects best of Jazz Age mag Vanity Fair 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Theodore Dreiser has, for instance; Arnold Bennett has not. The Crow's Nest In his informing and stimulating collection of essays, “On Contemporary Literature,” recently published, Mr. Stuart P. Sherman squanders an entire chapter on Theodore Dreiser. The So-called Human Race In America, at this present time, the work of Mr. Theodore Dreiser is an admirable example of this sort of thing. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Once when you stood by I found a Dreiser novel dry. When Winter Comes to Main Street A Vanity Fair editor preceded the piece with a note emphasizing Dreiser was expressing his own opinion, not the magazine’s. Book collects best of Jazz Age mag Vanity Fair 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Both of these weaknesses revealed themselves very amusingly in the Dreiser case, and I hope to detail their operations at some length later on, when I describe that cause célèbre in a separate work. A Book of Prefaces How far does Mr. Dreiser represent American life? Contemporary American Literature Bibliographies and Study Outlines The American Mr. Dreiser ploughs his earth-upheaving path through the workshops of Chicago and the warehouses of Manhattan. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations A great many people wish to read Mr. Dreiser's books yet no one has to read them if he does not want to. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Dreiser," he growled as he related the case to me, "it serves me right. Twelve Men It was withdrawn forthwith, and Dreiser was compelled to enter suit for a performance of the contract. A Book of Prefaces With what types of material does Mr. Dreiser succeed best? Contemporary American Literature Bibliographies and Study Outlines I discern in Mr. Dreiser the same obstinate tenacity of purpose, the same occult perception of subterranean forces, the same upheaving, plough-like "drive" through the materials of life and character. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations I recommend the matter to the attention of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, which once took action to prohibit a novel by Mr. Theodore Dreiser. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Dreiser," he exclaimed once with gusto, his bright beady eyes gleaming with an immense human warmth, "you haven't the slightest idea of the fascination of some of the old beliefs. Twelve Men Like Dreiser, Conrad is forever fascinated by the "immense indifference of things," the tragic vanity of the blind groping that we call aspiration, the profound meaninglessness of life—fascinated, and left wondering. A Book of Prefaces Of all modern novelists Theodore Dreiser most entirely catches the spirit of America. One Hundred Best Books Theodore Dreiser's stubborn habit of presenting his rich men's will to power without abatement or apology has helped to keep him steadily suspected. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) Theodore Dreiser, the novelist, was talking about criticism. Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations Gee, Dreiser, I'm ahead twenty-eight so far!" or "I've lost thirty all told. Twelve Men Yet Dreiser was at once deprived of his royalties, and forced into expensive litigation. A Book of Prefaces In the "Titan," especially, the peculiar power of Dreiser's massive, coulter-like impetus is evident. One Hundred Best Books Not only has Mr. Dreiser never allowed any one else to make up his mind for him regarding the significance and aims and obligations of mankind but he has never made up his mind himself. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) Only rarely is the object of Anderson's stories social verisimilitude, or the "photographing" of familiar appearances, in the sense, say, that one might use to describe a novel by Theodore Dreiser or Sinclair Lewis. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life "You should have seen him, Dreiser," he exclaimed, hunting me up about an hour after the letter arrived. Twelve Men Dreiser has shown much the same process in Witla and Cowperwood, but he is less free from the conventional obsession than Conrad; he takes a love affair far more naïvely, and hence far more seriously. A Book of Prefaces One may also feel doubtful whether Mr. Dreiser feels himself called upon to put on the armour of masculinism and play the part assigned to him. Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene If Mr. Dreiser refuses to withhold his approbation from the lawless financier, he withholds it even less from the lawless lover. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) Wedged in between Mark Twain and Dreiser were eight strange and inappropriate volumes, the works of Richard Caramel—"The Demon Lover," true enough … but also seven others that were execrably awful, without sincerity or grace. The Beautiful and Damned Dreiser, Dreiser," he chortled, "there's nothing like it. Twelve Men In Dreiser's novels there is the same anarchy of valuations, and it is chiefly responsible for the rage he excites in the unintelligent. A Book of Prefaces Various notable figures are mentioned, from Nietzsche to Mr. Theodore Dreiser. Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene Mr. Dreiser is obsessed by the spectacle of middle age renewing itself at the fires of youth—an obsession which has its sentimental no less than its realistic traits. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) Speak like Remy de Gourmont and Dostoevsky and Stevie Crane, like Schopenhauer and Dreiser and Isaiah; speak like all the great questioners whose tongues have wagged and whose hearts have burned with questions. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Dreiser," he would say in Philadelphia and Newark, if not before, "it's in just such a neighborhood as this that some day I'm going to live. Twelve Men It is as if Dreiser, suddenly discovering himself a sage, put off the high passion of the artist and took to pounding a pulpit. A Book of Prefaces Comrade Dreiser may demur at all this and, peeling his vest, reveal us wounds, honorable wounds acquired in honorable battle. Nonsenseorship Much concerned about wisdom as Theodore Dreiser is, he almost wholly lacks the dexterous knowingness which has marked the mass of fiction in the age of O. Henry. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) Mr. Mencken and Mr. Dreiser have vigorously expressed this annoyance with American tradition. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Dreiser, I've just hit upon a great idea which I am working out with some of the boys down on our paper. Twelve Men But in that very groping toward a light but dimly seen there is a measure, it seems to me, of Dreiser's rank and consideration as an artist. A Book of Prefaces Selected magazine articles of Theodore Dreiser: Life and art in the American 1890's. The Civilization of Illiteracy That the sincerity which Mr. Dreiser practises differs in some respects from that of any other American novelist, no matter how truthful, must be referred to one special quality of his own temperament. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) They wish to break with it—at least Mr. Dreiser does—break with it morally, spiritually, aesthetically. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism In a few months now, Dreiser, Zuleika and I are going to have our first calf. Twelve Men The work of Dreiser, considered as craftsmanship pure and simple, is extremely uneven, and the distance separating his best from his worst is almost infinite. A Book of Prefaces Priscilla learns from the announcer that "this little lady is out of 'Irony' by Theodore Dreiser". A Parody Outline of History Viewing such matters thus Mr. Dreiser constantly underestimates the forces which in civil society actually do restrain the expansive moods of sex. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) They come with a challenge, and when we read Galsworthy, Wells, Sinclair, Dreiser, Hardy's "The Dynasts," Bennett—we are conscious of criticizing life as we read. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Dreiser is a product of far different forces and traditions, and is capable of no such escapement. A Book of Prefaces It is in "Jennie Gerhardt" that Dreiser's view of life begins to take on coherence and to show a general tendency. A Book of Prefaces In Dreiser the thing is more intimate, more disorderly, more a matter of pure feeling. A Book of Prefaces And yet these guesses perhaps come nearer to the truth than they might have come were either the typical financier or Mr. Dreiser more subtle. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) Since then Dreiser has devoted himself wholly to serious work. A Book of Prefaces I suspect, indeed, that the vin rouge was in Dreiser's arteries as he concocted it. A Book of Prefaces "For myself," says Dreiser somewhere, "I do not know what truth is, what beauty is, what love is, what hope is." A Book of Prefaces Not that Dreiser actually belongs to this ragamuffin company. A Book of Prefaces Mr. Dreiser's artists are hardly persons at all; they are creatures driven, and the wonder lies primarily in the impelling energy. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) Dreiser, within his limits, belongs to this sabot-shod company of the elect. A Book of Prefaces Another proof, perhaps, of that cosmic imbecility upon which Dreiser is so fond of discoursing.... A Book of Prefaces Dreiser is praised, when he is praised at all, for making Carrie so clear, for understanding her so well. A Book of Prefaces The most successful of the Dreiser novels, judged by sales, is "Sister Carrie," and the causes thereof are not far to seek. A Book of Prefaces Mr. Dreiser is reported to consider The 'Genius', a massive, muddy, powerful narrative, his greatest novel, though as a matter of fact it cannot be compared with Sister Carrie for insight or accuracy or charm. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) And not infrequently that confession takes the form of ingenuous confidences—about the fortunes of the house of Dreiser, the dispersed Dreiser clan, the old neighbours in Indiana, new friends made along the way. A Book of Prefaces As for the rest of the Dreiser compositions, I leave them to your curiosity. A Book of Prefaces The other group, more courageous and more honest, proceeds by direct attack; Dreiser is to be disposed of by a moral attentat. A Book of Prefaces What offends him is not actually Dreiser's shortcoming as an artist, but Dreiser's shortcoming as a Christian and an American. A Book of Prefaces The will to wealth, the will to love, the will to art—Mr. Dreiser conceives them all as blind energies with no goal except self-realization. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) For myself," says Dreiser, "I do not know what truth is, what beauty is, what love is, what hope is. A Book of Prefaces I suspect that Dreiser, writing so of his own creed, would be tempted to make it "stupid," or, at all events, "unintelligible." A Book of Prefaces In brief, that Dreiser is a liar when he calls himself a realist; that he is actually a naturalist, and hence accursed. A Book of Prefaces At that point Dreiser left it in disgust. A Book of Prefaces There followed a series of acrimonious negotiations, with Dreiser holding resolutely to the letter of his contract. A Book of Prefaces Here Dreiser sets himself that difficult task, and here he carries it off with almost complete success. A Book of Prefaces One lies in the fact that Dreiser is quite unable to get the feel, so to speak, of Philadelphia, just as he is unable to get the feel of New York in "The 'Genius.'" A Book of Prefaces Almost every mile of the road travelled has been Dreiser's own road in life. A Book of Prefaces The endless piling up of such non-essentials cripples and incommodes the story; its drama is too copiously swathed in words to achieve a sting; the Dreiser manner devours and defeats itself. A Book of Prefaces Dreiser is at his best, indeed, when he deals with old men. A Book of Prefaces Of all the personages in the Dreiser books, the Cowperwood of "The Titan" is perhaps the most radiantly real. A Book of Prefaces In his ultimate disaster, so plainly foreshadowed at the close, there is the clearest of all projections of the ideas that lie at the bottom of all Dreiser's work. A Book of Prefaces Jennie has some touch of that greatness; Dreiser is forever calling her "a big woman"; it is a refrain almost as irritating as the "trig" of "The Titan." A Book of Prefaces What good would it do us, asks Dreiser, to know? A Book of Prefaces Here, precisely, is the point of Dreiser's departure from his fellows. A Book of Prefaces One day, in September, 1899, Dreiser took a sheet of yellow paper and wrote a title at random. A Book of Prefaces All the latter-day American novelists of consideration are vastly more facile than Dreiser in their philosophy, as they are in their style. A Book of Prefaces Considering that it is by Dreiser, it is extraordinarily adept and intelligent in design; only in "The Titan" has he ever done so well. A Book of Prefaces "The 'Genius,'" which interrupted the "trilogy of desire," marks the nadir of Dreiser's accomplishment, as "The Titan" marks its apogee. A Book of Prefaces The plan of it, of course, is simple enough, and it is one that Dreiser, at his best, might have carried out with undoubted success. A Book of Prefaces Out of the desert of American fictioneering, so populous and yet so dreary, Dreiser stands up—a phenomenon unescapably visible, but disconcertingly hard to explain. A Book of Prefaces Dreiser was distrustful of his own skill, but Henry kept at him, and finally, during a holiday the two spent together at Maumee, Ohio, he made the attempt. A Book of Prefaces But described realistically and coldbloodedly, with all that wealth of minute and apparently inconsequential detail which Dreiser piles up so amazingly, he becomes a figure astonishingly vivid, lifelike and engrossing. A Book of Prefaces Dreiser wrote four more stories during the year following, and sold them all. A Book of Prefaces The Dreiser books, like their predecessors that I discuss here, reveal the curious unevenness of the author. A Book of Prefaces The place of Dreiser in our literature is frequently challenged, and often violently, but never successfully. A Book of Prefaces A comfortable phrase is what he craves beyond all things—and comfortable phrases are surely not to be sought in Dreiser's stock. A Book of Prefaces More, he is a man of the first class, an Achilles of his world; and here the achievement of Dreiser is most striking, for he succeeds where all fore-runners failed. A Book of Prefaces Dreiser left the Delineator in 1910, and for the next half year or so endeavoured to pump vitality into the Bohemian Magazine, in which he had acquired a proprietary interest. A Book of Prefaces I used to lie under a tree," says Dreiser, "and read 'Twice Told Tales' by the hour. A Book of Prefaces Substitute the name of Dreiser for that of Conrad, and you will have to change scarcely a word. A Book of Prefaces They refused it without ceremony and soon afterward Dreiser carried the manuscript to Doubleday, Page & Co. A Book of Prefaces In "A Traveler at Forty" Dreiser is surely frank enough in his vivisections; he seldom forgets a vanity or a wart. A Book of Prefaces Dreiser, more than once, seems ready to take refuge behind an indeterminate sort of mysticism, even a facile supernaturalism, but Conrad, from first to last, faces squarely the massive and intolerable fact. A Book of Prefaces Dreiser, in fact, is densely ignorant of German literature, as he is of the better part of French literature, and of much of English literature. A Book of Prefaces I often wonder if Dreiser gets anything properly describable as pleasure out of this dogged accumulation of threadbare, undistinguished, uninspiring nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, pronouns, participles and conjunctions. A Book of Prefaces In 1912, accompanied by Grant Richards, the London publisher, Dreiser made his first trip abroad, visiting England, France, Italy and Germany. A Book of Prefaces In America, setting aside an odd volume here and there, one can discern only Dreiser—and of Dreiser's limitations I shall discourse anon. A Book of Prefaces Dreiser, like Mark Twain and Emerson before him, has been far more hospitably greeted in his first stage, now drawing to a close, in England than in his own country. A Book of Prefaces However, it is Dreiser himself who is the chief character of the story, and who stands out from it most brilliantly. A Book of Prefaces The offence of Dreiser is that he has disdained this revelation and gone back to the Greeks. A Book of Prefaces Our Chamberses and Richard Harding Davises are national figures; our Norrises and Dreisers are scarcely tolerated. A Book of Prefaces Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens—of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite. A Book of Prefaces The identical gentleman who achieved this discovery about old Mark in 1910, now seeks to dispose of Dreiser in the exact manner of Richardson. A Book of Prefaces Search the latest volume of the Phelps revelation, "The Advance of the English Novel," and you will find that Dreiser is not once mentioned in it. A Book of Prefaces Dreiser describes the thing that he sees, laboriously and relentlessly, but he never forgets the dream that is behind it. A Book of Prefaces Fully nine-tenths of the reviews of Dreiser's "The Titan," without question the best American novel of its year, were devoted chiefly to indignant denunciations of the morals of Frank Cowperwood, its central character. A Book of Prefaces |
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